nLIGHT Website Privacy Policy

This is the Website Privacy Policy of nLIGHT, Inc, website: www.nlight.net (together with our subsidiaries, “nLIGHT”, “we”, “us”, “our” and terms of similar meaning). This policy describes the information that we collect from you as part of the normal operation of our website (Site), and how we disclose and secure this information. It also describes your choices regarding use, access and correction of your personal information*.

*“personal information” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person; an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person. Personal information does not include information obtained and used where it is necessary in the context of a contract or the intention to enter into a contract which shall be referred to herein as “business information”. Business Information that is obtained through the website and by other means is not subject to the privacy terms herein.

By accepting this Privacy Policy by visiting and using the Site, you expressly consent (if you choose to do accept when an opportunity has been provided to you) to our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information and business information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. At any time, you may contact us at this address connect@nlight.net and request that your personal information be removed from our records.

How We Use Your Information

We use personal information we obtain from your current and past activities on the Site, to provide to you the products and services offered by the Site; measure interest in our products and services; detect and protect us against error, fraud and other criminal activity; and as otherwise described to you at the time of collection. On occasion we use email address or other contact information to contact our Users to ask them for their input on our products and services.

We may also use personal information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze Site usage, to improve our content and product offerings, and to customize the Site’s content, layout, and services. These uses improve the Site and better tailor it to meet your needs, so as to provide you with a smooth, efficient, safe and customized experience while using the Site.

What Information Do We Collect?

Our primary purpose in collecting personal information from you is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. This allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs, and to customize our service to make your experience safer and easier. We only collect personal information about you that we consider necessary for achieving this purpose.

You always have the option to not provide information by choosing not to accept to provide personal information; however, you may not be able to access if you do not accept.

We also automatically track certain information about you based upon your behavior on our Site and store it through log files. We use this information to do internal research on our users’ demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand, protect and serve you and our community. This information may include the URL that you just came from, which URL you next go, your computer browser information, and your IP address. We may provide Customers’ IP addresses to payment intermediaries in the course of the payment process. Technologies such as: cookies and similar technologies are used by us and our partners (e.g., advertising, marketing and analytics), affiliates, or other service providers. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.

We use cookies to remember users’ settings, store login addresses, authenticate users, run website experiments, and store analytics data. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some features or areas of our site may be limited.

Our Disclosure of Your Information

We will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy policy, including as follows:

In general, information you enter on the Site is available to whom you give access to the information through the normal operation of the Site such as Sales and Service.

Credit Card or other payment information. We do not collect or store credit card or other payment method information on our website. We may receive such information by other means such as credit card payment processors in which cases our payment processors have the sole and complete responsibility for the storage of credit card and payment information. We may also share personally identifiable information with our payment processor intermediaries for risk management and fraud prevention.

For example, you may have the opportunity to request financial products, from third parties. We will only share your information with such third parties if you choose to request their products or services (or to be assessed for eligibility to receive such products or services). If you do choose to request such products or services, we will provide your information to the relevant third party on your behalf, as required to provide the products or services you have requested. We do not control the use, storage, retention, processing, or disclosure of your information by such third parties, and this Privacy Policy will not apply to them. Your relationship with these third parties will generally be subject to their separate terms and conditions as well as privacy policies or statements, and we recommend that you carefully review these documents before requesting their products or services.

Anonymized Aggregated Data. We aggregate and anonymize sales information including (but not limited to) industry type, number of invoices sent, average invoice size, method of sending invoices, percentage paid online, sales amounts and average sale per customer, and disclose such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to Subscribers. However, in these situations, we do not disclose any information that could be used to identify you personally.

Legal Requests and Business Transitions; Emergencies. In certain situations, we may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. We may disclose your personal information (a) to any governmental authority as part of an investigation to determine our compliance with any applicable law, rule, or regulation (including privacy laws, rules, and regulations), (b) in response to a court order, subpoena, discovery request, or other lawful judicial or administrative proceeding, (c) as otherwise required under any applicable law, rule, or regulation, and (d) in good faith, to protect or defend the rights or property of nLIGHT and other users and (e) if nLIGHT is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent noticeon our Web site of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.

Correcting and Updating Your Personal Information

Upon request nLIGHT will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your personal information. To review, delete and update your personal information to ensure it is accurate, you may contact us at privacy@nlight.net. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.

Data Retention

We will retain and use your personal or business information for as long as needed to provide you products and services or use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

Additional Policy Information

If you have questions or complaints regarding our privacy policy or practices, please contact us at privacy@nlight.net.

Notification of Privacy Statement Changes

We may update this privacy statement to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes we will notify you by email (if available) or by means of a notice on this Site prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.

Questions?

It is our goal to make our privacy practices easy to understand. If you have questions, concerns or if you would like more detailed information, please email our privacy officer at privacy@nlight.net.